Ring- and tkaveleb spinning mechanism



UNITED STATES PATENT GFEICE.

JOSEPH YV. WATTLES, OF CANTGN, MASSACHUSETTS.

RING AND TRAVELER SPINNING MECHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,681, dated July 5, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knovvn that I, JOSEPH IV. IVATTLES, of Canton, in the county of Norfolk and State ot Massachusetts. have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ring and Traveler Spinning B'Iechanism; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying' drawings, of Which- Figure l is a top view; Fig. 2, a section of a traveler and its ring constructed in accordance with my improvement.

The nature of my invention consists in the application and arrangement of a bearing annulus outside of and concentric With the circular ring or rail on which the traveler runs and is supported.

In the drawings A exhibits the ring and B the traveler ot' a common ring and traveler spinning machine. such ring being furnished with an inclined rail a. for the traveler to run upon. Outside of the said rail and concentric with it I make a groove so as to form a bearing annulus extending around the rail. This bearing annulus serves to support a ring and retard it While it is being driven around the rail a. As the outer bend of the ring will not be drawn upward against the rail a While the spinning process is going on, but, in consequence of the centrifugal force generated in it, will be borne down upon or against the bearing annulus7 it Will operate not only to prevent the thread from rubbing against the rail a, but will serve as a means of producing additional friction for the retardation of the ring and the consequent increase of Wind of yarn upon the spindle or bobbin.

Vhat I claim as my invention or improvement is- The combination and arrangement of the bearing annulns b, with the ring or its traveler carrier a, substantially in manner and to operate with the traveler as described.

JOSEPH W. VATTLES. litnesses R. H. EDDY, FRED CURTIS. 

